Menu bar Icon and GIF size

[santynaren]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• Recordly often disappears between window
• Gif exports in high quality looks good, but consumes more size

Describe the solution you'd like

• can we have an icon control on menu bar
• any way to reduce the gif size while export

Describe alternatives you've considered

• be careful on where recordly is being used
• use external tools to compress

Additional context
none

[webadderall]

What do you mean by icon control? What menu bar and OS is this?

[ianjmacintosh]

What do you mean by icon control? What menu bar and OS is this?

I'm running macOS Tahoe 26.2. I'm not sure if this is what @santynaren meant, but when Recordly didn't have an icon on my dock (the thing on the bottom where there's a bunch of icons for things like Finder and System Settings), only a small icon in the menu bar (the thing up top where I've to a "File" and "Edit" menu)

Menu bar:

I just updated to v1.1.21 and now I have an icon on my dock 🥳

Dock (with icon):

[ianjmacintosh]

I just recorded a video and now the icon vanished from my dock. 😕

[santynaren]

Hey @webadderall yes I meant the menu bar, Recordly doesn't have an option to stop from the menu bar, instead click on the icon.. takes me to the app, and I had to press stop recording there

And the whole part is recorded as well (which is of no use)

I am using Sonoma 14.2

Yes @ianjmacintosh you are right mate, thanks

[meiiie]

Quick triage pass: this is really two separate tracks. The menu-bar / dock behavior during recording should be tracked independently from GIF size/compression, since they have different root causes and different owners. If both are still relevant on current builds, it would be much easier to move them forward as two focused follow-ups instead of one mixed issue.

[meiiie]

Splitting this into two focused tracks:

• macOS: menu bar control to stop recording + consistent dock icon during recording #335 — macOS menu-bar control to stop recording + consistent dock icon during recording
• Feature Request: Option to reduce exported GIF file size #336 — reduce exported GIF file size (quality / compression trade-off)

Closing here so follow-ups happen in the focused threads. If either track turns out to be a bug rather than a feature, we can relabel on the new issue.